Previously published: [New York, N.Y.] : Macmillan Company, 1969.

Indians today, the real and the unreal --
Laws and treaties --
The disastrous policy of termination --
Anthropologists and other friends --
Missionaries and the religious vacuum --
Government agencies --
Indian humor --
The red and the black --
The problem of Indian leadership --
Indians and modern society --
A redefiniton of Indian affairs --
An afterword.

In his new preface to this paperback edition, the author observes, "The Indian world has changed so substantially since the first publication of this book that some things contained in it seem new again." Indeed, it seems that each generation of whites and Indians will have to read and reread Vine Deloria’s Manifesto for some time to come, before we absorb his special, ironic Indian point of view and what he tells us, with a great deal of humor, about U.S. race relations, federal bureaucracies, Christian churches, and social scientists. This book continues to be required reading for all Americans, whatever their special interest.

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